[Dovecot] Dovecot reports zero messages erroneously

[Chris Spiegel]

On Friday 28 October 2005 05:27 am, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 09:36 -0700, Chris Spiegel wrote:
> > On October 11, Mark Farmer reported a problem about not being able to see
> > new mails.  I'm running into the same issue.  Even though cur/ and new/
> > contain messages, Dovecot reports that there aren't any.

[ ... ]

> > It looks like a problem with the dovecot.index* files.  When I delete
> > them, alpha4 can serve up the mails just fine, and will in fact keep
> > working for a little while.  Eventually (within a few hours, although I'm
> > not sure what causes it), dovecot thinks things are empty again.
>
> What about if you do "touch Maildir/new", does it then see the new
> mails?

Yes, that does cause the new messages to be seen.

> What filesystem do you use?

JFS on Linux 2.6.13.  I'm just using the default mount options, so no noatime, 
if that would be an issue.

Chris